How much does Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation give?

Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $18,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Food & Nutrition (20%), Education (9%).

Who are Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: New Beginnings ($6k), Sound Generations ($6k), Pike Market Senior Center ($5k).

Does Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.

Where is Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation based?

Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation is based in WA.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 24
Grants FY2025: 24
Organizations funded FY2024: 29%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $1,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $2,000
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 24; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $230k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	24	$18k	33%
FY2024	24	$17k	29%
FY2023	18	$13k	0%
FY2022	22	$14k	5%
FY2021	24	$18k	13%
FY2020	24	$18k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$28kFood & Nutrition$16kEducation$7kArts & Culture$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kYouth Development$4kHealth$4kReligion$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
New Beginnings	$6,000	6	0%
Sound Generations	$6,000	6	0%
Pike Market Senior Center	$5,000	5	0%
Medic One Foundation	$4,000	6	0%
Childhaven	$4,000	4	0%
Familyworks	$4,000	6	0%
University of Chicago	$4,000	2	0%
Seattles Union Gospel Mission	$3,000	5	n/a
The Salvation Army	$3,000	6	n/a
Burke Museum Association	$3,000	3	0%

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All grantees of Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
New Beginnings	$6,000	6	0%
Sound Generations	$6,000	6	0%
Pike Market Senior Center	$5,000	5	0%
Medic One Foundation	$4,000	6	0%
Childhaven	$4,000	4	0%
Familyworks	$4,000	6	0%
University of Chicago	$4,000	2	0%
Seattles Union Gospel Mission	$3,000	5	n/a
The Salvation Army	$3,000	6	n/a
Burke Museum Association	$3,000	3	0%
Northwest Harvest Emm	$3,000	4	0%
Mercer Island Schools Foundation	$3,000	6	0%
Food Lifeline	$3,000	6	0%
Youth Eastside Services	$2,000	2	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$1,750	3	0%
Humanities Washington	$1,500	2	0%
Mercy Corps	$1,500	3	0%
LifeWire	$1,500	3	0%
Bike Works Seattle	$1,500	6	0%
Mercer Island Community Fund	$1,500	3	1%
Overlake Hospital Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Island County Historical Society	$1,000	4	0%
Cascade Public Media	$1,000	1	0%
Goosefoot Community Fund	$1,000	2	0%
American Diabetes Association	$750	3	0%
King County Library System Foundation	$500	1	0%
Northwest Parkinsons Foundation	$250	1	0%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc	$250	1	0%
Seattle Parks Foundation	$250	1	0%
Arthritis Foundation Inc	$250	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationWA31.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gates Foundation · Medina Foundation · Catania Family Foundation · Fales Foundation Trust · Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · Moccasin Lake Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation

How much does Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation give?: Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $18,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Food & Nutrition (20%), Education (9%).
Who are Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: New Beginnings ($6k), Sound Generations ($6k), Pike Market Senior Center ($5k).
Does Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.
Where is Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation based?: Marcia Paulsell Zech Foundation is based in WA.